A decade has handed because boots first hit the floor in Iraq and Afghanistan. but the conflict has no longer ended—only replaced. Twenty-five assorted veteran voices mirror the altering face of strive against and mirror the haunting realities and truths in simple terms fiction can show. those masterfully crafted tales from writers who've served replicate the total breadth of human emotion—loss, anger, pleasure, love, worry, and courage—and the evolving nature of what has turn into America’s “Forever struggle.